Give Me Faith Farm

Late Summer Musings Summer is nearly over and I’m not ready. I’ve been canning beans, turning out quart after quart of chicken stock, blanching and freezing corn, making peach jam and apple syrup (it was supposed to be jelly, but…) and I still have 15 pounds of blueberries in the freezer to process. The beans…

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Goats and the Garden As the summer progresses, things tend to fall into a routine. First thing in the morning, goats get milked and switched around. The boys go back into their day pen and the girls and kids are let out to browse the pasture. The bottle babies get their bottles, the geese, chickens,…

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GIVE ME FAITH FARM’S HANDCRAFTED SOAP Happy July, all! We’ve been super busy around the farm with goat kids and gardening and working on projects like reroofing the main goat shed before the rains come back. The heat wave was a bit of a drag, since our 101-year-old house has no air conditioning. I parked…

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Ducks vs. Chickens (aka I want to try something different) I’ve had ducks for almost 10 years, but it never occurred to me to try raising them for meat. But, when Carol asked me what I wanted to add to Akyla Farms’ offerings, ducks seemed like a natural choice. So, I read a book. That’s…

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Bottle Babies In May of 2016, Sabrina came into my life. She was 7 days old, the unfortunate little sister to two big brothers who would not share their mom’s udder. Yes, Sabrina is a goat. I was asked to babysit overnight while a friend ran an out-of-town errand and by the next day, I…

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